Aphrodite Classics

Praxiteles’ intentions, like his original perform, have extended because disappeared. The assymmetrical treatment of the nude male and the clothed female in archaic and classical Greek art can be matched with the by now nicely-recognized social and legal inequities among males and females in ancient Athens. In the formation of the polis or city-state, women were legally positioned someplace involving slaves and citizens, and below the law they fell closer…Read More